Event-related desynchronization (ERD) in the alpha band during a hand mental rotation task

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 541, Issue , 2013, Pages 238-242

  Chen, Xiaogang ^a   Bin, Guangyu ^b   Daly, Ian ^c   Gao, Xiaorong ^a  

^a Tsinghua University   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Alpha band power; Event related spectral perturbation; Mental rotation; Motor imagery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HAND; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; MALE; MENTAL TASK; MOTOR CONTROL; NORMAL HUMAN; ORIENTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; ROTATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; ALPHA RHYTHM; BRAIN MAPPING; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY PHASE SYNCHRONIZATION; FEMALE; HAND; HUMANS; IMAGINATION; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; REACTION TIME; ROTATION;

EID: 84876421017     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.02.036     Document Type: Article

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